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The French food processing sector is valued at $203 billion and has over 18,000 food processors from small-scale to some of the largest food companies in the world.

France’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional (HRI) sector had $102.3 billion in sales revenue in 2017, a 1.8 percent increase from the previous year. Hotels and restaurants accounted....

EU-28 chicken meat production is expected to increase slightly again in 2019 driven by both domestic and export demand.

On October 16, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron named Senator Didier Guillaume as the new French Minister for Agriculture and Food.

FAS Paris obtained a waiver from the French Ministry of Agriculture that allowed the U.S. foundation Wreath Across America to import into France 10,000 U.S. sourced balsam pine wreaths....

France’s recently passed farm and food bill contains a provision that prohibits the imports of agricultural and food products produced with pesticides, herbicides, veterinary medicines....

France has no commercial production or field trials of genetically engineered (GE) crops.

More than 70 percent of French household food purchases are made in supermarkets and local smaller discount stores.

On July 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment that organisms created through many newer genome editing techniques are to be regulated....

On June 14, 2018, an agreement on the successor to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was reached for 2021-2030.

This report provides an overview on the biofuel use mandates in the various EU-28 member states. It supplements the EU-28 Biofuel Annual Report.

On June 14, 2018, negotiators from the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission found a political agreement on the next iteration of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II).